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44 Responses to “FEATURED: New CIRCLE Working Paper on K12 Civic Education”

We need to go for mass advertising about the cause of our organization so that people may know what we are doing and what will be the outcomes. We need to work on engagement of civic youth and civic education. Thanks

I downloaded civic pdf document this doucument has The Long-Term Impact of High School Civics Curricula on Political Knowledge, Democratic Attitudes and Civic Behaviors: A Multi-Level Model of Direct and Mediated Effects Through Communication. very good topics.

go for mass advertising about the cause of our organization so that people may know what we are doing and what will be the outcomes. We need to work on engagement of civic youth and civic education. Thanks

Unfortunately, young voter turnout remains skewed towards those with more formal education. For instance, while just 57 percent of U.S. citizens under 30 have ever attended college, 70 percent of all young voters had gone to college. The same disproportion can be seen when looking at those without a high school diploma. While youth with no high school diploma make up 14 percent of the general youth population, only six percent of young voters in 2008 had no high school diploma.

This data is based on a longitudinal study of high school students in a challenged large urban school district in Ohio.Two very famous approaches have been used by researchers, stimulating political communication and rote learning of traditional civics content. These are the main soul of the subject.

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This research done on a district school Ohio, there is a question about the generalization of the research, whether the findings of this research apply to other regions or not. Because I think findings may not be generalized to other cities due to different scenarios. Thanks for sharing.

New CIRCLE Working Paper by Britt Wilkenfeld examines the effects of several systems of influence (schools, families, neighborhoods, etc) on civic outcomes. The author finds that there are processes inherent in each context that can account for the ways in which environments influence adolescents’ development. The most important processes seem to involve aspects of interpersonal relationships with parents (especially the level of discourse), patterns of activity within schools, institutional resources within neighborhoods, and the collective socialization that occurs in neighborhoods.Thank you so much for the useful information.

The research on Civic Youth Engagement, the population include a district School in Ohio. Other commentator pointed out this problem and I am also thinking the same, that what about the generalization of research findings. Overall it has pointed many important factors contributing to civic engagement. Thanks

That’s nice research done in Ohio and the approaches being contrasted in the research are: stimulating the political communication and learning of traditional civic content. The findings of this research opened door for the new variables in Civic youth research. Thanks

Two approaches to instruction are contrasted: stimulating political communication by discussing media sources and engaging in political debate, and rote learning of traditional civics content. Both approaches correlated negatively with civic outcomes, but there could be several interpretations of that correlation.

This data is based on a longitudinal study of high school students in a challenged large urban school district in Ohio.Two very famous approaches have been used by researchers, stimulating political communication and rote learning of traditional civics content. These are the main soul of the subject.

This new paper will definitely have a positive effects on on Civic Education.Though more efforts required to improve the quality.Recommended to both including urban school district.Thank you so much for sharing.

Engagement of youth in Political Debate will increase the chances of civic participation. This research study is helpful in this regard and as it is based on currently available data, so it is more valid and reliable. Thank you.